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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>NUMBERS</span>
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CHAPTER 18
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Aaron and his sons called to minister in priest’s office—Levites called to minister in service of tabernacle—Levites receive no land inheritance, but are supported by tithes of people.
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And</span> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE bear any guilt incurred in failure to bear the full responsibility thereof.">bear</a> the iniquity of your priesthood.
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And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 29: 34.">joined</a> unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee <i>shall minister</i> before the tabernacle of witness.
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And they shall keep thy charge, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 3: 25 (25, 31, 36).">charge</a> of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 44: 13 (9-14).">nigh</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="num/18/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Num. 4: 15; Dan. 5: 2.">vessels</a> of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, <sup>d</sup><a href="num/18/3d" mark="d" type="A" title="Num. 17: 13.">die</a>.
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And they shall be joined unto thee, and <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR attend to the duties of.">keep</a> the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR any unauthorized person.">a</a> stranger shall not come nigh unto you.
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And ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 3: 38.">keep</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 46; D&C 107: 20.">charge</a> of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no <sup>c</sup><a href="num/18/5c" mark="c" type="A" title="Num. 16: 48 (46-48).">wrath</a> any more upon the children of Israel.
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And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, Aaronic.">Levites</a> from among the children of Israel: to you <i>they are</i> given <i>as</i> a gift for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priesthood, History of; TG Priests.">priest</a>’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Veil.">vail</a>; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office <i>unto you as</i> a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 10: 12 (12-15); 1 Sam. 2: 28.">offerings</a> of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 7: 31 (30-34); Deut. 18: 3 (1-5).">given</a> them by reason of the <sup>c</sup><a href="num/18/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 29; D&C 68: 21; D&C 124: 39.">anointing</a>, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
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This shall be thine of the most holy things, <i>reserved</i> from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/9a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB meal, or cereal; Lev. 2: 3 (2-3).">meat</a> offering of theirs, and every <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 4: 24 (22-35); Lev. 6: 25 (25-26).">sin</a> offering of theirs, and every <sup>c</sup><a href="num/18/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 7: 7.">trespass</a> offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, <i>shall be</i> most holy for thee and for thy sons.
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In the most <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 6: 16 (16, 18, 26).">holy</a> <i>place</i> shalt thou <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 18: 1.">eat</a> it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
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And this <i>is</i> thine; the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 27 (27-28); Lev. 7: 34.">heave</a> offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 3 (2-3, 11-13).">clean</a> in thy house shall eat of it.
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All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 18: 4.">firstfruits</a> of them which they shall offer unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, them have I given thee.
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<i>And</i> whatsoever is <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 26: 2.">first</a> ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat <i>of</i> it.
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Every thing <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 27: 21 (17-21, 28).">devoted</a> in Israel shall be thine.
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Every thing that openeth the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR womb.">matrix</a> in all flesh, which they bring unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>whether it be</i> of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Firstborn.">firstborn</a> of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.
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And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which <i>is</i> twenty gerahs.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 4: 4; Moses 5: 5 (5-8).">firstling</a> of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they <i>are</i> holy: thou shalt <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 3: 2 (2, 5); D&C 133: 51 (50-52).">sprinkle</a> their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat <i>for</i> an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
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All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it <i>is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 13: 5.">covenant</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Salt.">salt</a> for ever before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 10: 9; Deut. 18: 1; Josh. 13: 14.">inheritance</a> in their land, neither shalt thou have any <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 18: 1 (1-2).">part</a> among them: I <i>am</i> thy part and thine <sup>c</sup><a href="num/18/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 44: 28.">inheritance</a> among the children of Israel.
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And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Birthright.">inheritance</a>, for their service which they serve, <i>even</i> the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
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Neither must the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 1: 51.">children</a> of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 35: 2 (1-8).">Levites</a> shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: <i>it shall be</i> a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
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But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer <i>as</i> an heave offering unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Inheritance.">inheritance</a>.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Moses, saying,
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Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Tithing.">tenth</a> <i>part</i> of the tithe.
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And <i>this</i> your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though <i>it</i> <i>were</i> the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
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Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
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Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, of all the best thereof, <i>even</i> the hallowed part thereof out of it.
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Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.
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And ye <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/31a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR may eat it in any place.">shall</a> eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it <i>is</i> your <sup>b</sup><a href="num/18/31b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 10; Luke 10: 7.">reward</a> for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation.
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And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye <sup>a</sup><a href="num/18/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pollution.">pollute</a> the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
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